. There are tons of rares that are sadly ignored, yet still fun to play. Here are seven decks built with rares that are often left to sit in boxes while flashier, more expensive rares dominate tables. You’d be surprised how well some of these work.

is a “junk rare” card, it comes out of nowhere for the win. When I first saw the card, I knew I had to build a deck around it. It was really good, until Alara Reborn came out. Then it got insane. Bloodbraid Elves put it over the top.

sucks. But hey, that’s why this is a fun deck to play. You play a creature that is either on the board temporarily, or has some drawback (typically during an upkeep). You turn that raw power and toughness boost into an angry ooze-blob!

when you get your swarm of dirty rats. As you’ll notice, there are plenty of mana-fixers to support the 3 colors. There are a few ways to win the turn you play the rats:You can get the incarnations (Anger

: From here on out, I’m going to call him RK. He’s the secret to this deck. He draws you a card every time a card is played from a graveyard, you get to draw a card. This works with persist, retrace, Crucible of Worlds